P5 + P6 - Resubmission
Omniya Tajni
P5: Create the content for the animation
P6: Complete and edit the animation content in line with the plan
P6: Complete and edit the animation content in line with the plan
Comparison of Storyboard & Animation
As I was making my animation, I was following my storyboard because it presented me the narrative of my animation and the length of each shot, so I was able to follow it. This is my storyboard drawing in comparison to the actual animation, I have tried to follow it to the best of my ability. With the shots that I included in my storyboard, I followed it all and knew the way I wanted to make it, but once I finished copying my storyboard on to my animation, I realised that it was only 10 seconds long, which wasn't enough.
This made me think on what more to add, so I decided to showcase more performances. I started off with just music and artist in my storyboard, but during my production I added musicians, poet and juggling. I didn't add these to my storyboard as there wasn't enough time.
On my storyboard on the last shot, it shows that I allow the magician to re enter the shot and give the audiences some options on what to choose and where to go next from the app. I wanted to add this because I knew what I was making was for an application software but due to the time frame I had, I wasn't able to add this to my animation, but regardless I think it still looks nice.
These are some shots I used which were exactly the same thing I did to my animation:
The client asked me to produce a promotional animation for a new arts weekend that is being organised by Progress Festivals. Progress Festivals have asked me to have a themed character included as the central part of the animation. The themed character that I decided to choose was a magician.
All my animations were sourced and used from Vecteezy; my magician and background was fairly easy to find as it had the magician the background that I wanted, which was a theatre. I decided to have a theatre as the background because due to the fact it is a festival, I believe that my performers would be performing in a theatre, so I wanted to replicate that image. This is the vector I found on Vecteezy, however I adjusted it and changed some colours of the theatre and the magicians outfit on Adobe Animate.
My method was fairly simple, I would get the wand to move from right to left, get stars to appear and then the showcase of one of the performances will appear and it will repeat like this until the explosion. Here are some still shots of me moving the wand and allowing the stars to appear:
After this, the first thing I decided to show was some music symbols, here I added 3 symbols, appearing one by one, to carry on with the theme of magic and the whole idea of stuff appearing. This is a still shot of 2 of the symbols, before the 3rd symbol appears:
After the music notes, I wanted to showcase artist in some way. I had the idea to get a pen and make it draw a line or some sort of drawing. So I drew the final outcome of the drawing first and worked my way background by rubbing it off in each frame until it all appears, so it flows well. I was able to outline my last frame and make it flow by using the onion skin. This is a still shot of my pen drawing a squiggly line halfway through the animation:
These 3 screenshots shows a little brief of the step by step process I took with the paint brush drawing a squiggly line. I took a screenshot of 3 different frames to show the change:
I showcased a poet performer, through a scroll, I had another idea where I will get a paper and have some writing appear but I felt as if it will just copy the same format I did with the painting sequence, so a scroll opening seemed ideal. I was able to open the scroll properly by using the onion skin. These are 2 stills of the scroll being closed and opening halfway:
Of course, I wanted to add some juggling. I had an ideas to include an actual performer appearing and juggling but I felt as if that would ruin the theme that I had where objects just appear next to the wand, so I kept it like that where 3 balls would appear and just move around twice around a circle, as if they were juggling. These are still shots of how I moved the balls to somehow juggle and make it realistic. I also used the onion skin outline here:
I wanted to finish off my animation there, but it was only 20 seconds and I knew I needed to add more before I add the explosion bit I had planned as it would have only been under 30 seconds. So I decided to add different instruments that some performers could supposedly play, this was added the same way I did the music notes. Here is a still shot of the outcome:
Finally, I have added my performers, now I needed the magician to pull a 'trick' and make him self disappear and add smoke and in that bubble add the words ' Welcome to Progress Arts Weekend Festival ', At first I thought I'll continue the theme and add an explosion near the wand and make it grow until it turns in to the middle, but it didn't look nice and didn't flow as you can see the jump from the side to the middle. So I found an explosion on Vecteezy where it starts at the bottom and then the explosion appears. This was ideal and when I added it to my animation, in different frames it flowed very well and was the exact image I had in mind. These are some still shots I took to show the making of the explosion:
Visual Effects used in my animation:
When it came to making the balls juggle, I had to make sure it was flowed really well without any glitches. To do this I used the onion skin filter, this then allowed me to check the movement from the previous layer and allowed me to change it on the next layer and allow it to flow nicely.
With the pen drawing on the screen, I used it with onion skin and an eraser. With this scene I did it backwards. I drew the whole squiggly line first and went backwards and rubbed it off slowly and used the onion skin filter to see where I rubbed off previously and allow it flow properly.
Production
As I was making my animation, I was following my storyboard because it presented me the narrative of my animation and the length of each shot, so I was able to follow it. This is my storyboard drawing in comparison to the actual animation, I have tried to follow it to the best of my ability. With the shots that I included in my storyboard, I followed it all and knew the way I wanted to make it, but once I finished copying my storyboard on to my animation, I realised that it was only 10 seconds long, which wasn't enough.
This made me think on what more to add, so I decided to showcase more performances. I started off with just music and artist in my storyboard, but during my production I added musicians, poet and juggling. I didn't add these to my storyboard as there wasn't enough time.
On my storyboard on the last shot, it shows that I allow the magician to re enter the shot and give the audiences some options on what to choose and where to go next from the app. I wanted to add this because I knew what I was making was for an application software but due to the time frame I had, I wasn't able to add this to my animation, but regardless I think it still looks nice.
These are some shots I used which were exactly the same thing I did to my animation:
The client asked me to produce a promotional animation for a new arts weekend that is being organised by Progress Festivals. Progress Festivals have asked me to have a themed character included as the central part of the animation. The themed character that I decided to choose was a magician.
All my animations were sourced and used from Vecteezy; my magician and background was fairly easy to find as it had the magician the background that I wanted, which was a theatre. I decided to have a theatre as the background because due to the fact it is a festival, I believe that my performers would be performing in a theatre, so I wanted to replicate that image. This is the vector I found on Vecteezy, however I adjusted it and changed some colours of the theatre and the magicians outfit on Adobe Animate.
My method was fairly simple, I would get the wand to move from right to left, get stars to appear and then the showcase of one of the performances will appear and it will repeat like this until the explosion. Here are some still shots of me moving the wand and allowing the stars to appear:
After this, the first thing I decided to show was some music symbols, here I added 3 symbols, appearing one by one, to carry on with the theme of magic and the whole idea of stuff appearing. This is a still shot of 2 of the symbols, before the 3rd symbol appears:
After the music notes, I wanted to showcase artist in some way. I had the idea to get a pen and make it draw a line or some sort of drawing. So I drew the final outcome of the drawing first and worked my way background by rubbing it off in each frame until it all appears, so it flows well. I was able to outline my last frame and make it flow by using the onion skin. This is a still shot of my pen drawing a squiggly line halfway through the animation:
These 3 screenshots shows a little brief of the step by step process I took with the paint brush drawing a squiggly line. I took a screenshot of 3 different frames to show the change:
I showcased a poet performer, through a scroll, I had another idea where I will get a paper and have some writing appear but I felt as if it will just copy the same format I did with the painting sequence, so a scroll opening seemed ideal. I was able to open the scroll properly by using the onion skin. These are 2 stills of the scroll being closed and opening halfway:
I wanted to finish off my animation there, but it was only 20 seconds and I knew I needed to add more before I add the explosion bit I had planned as it would have only been under 30 seconds. So I decided to add different instruments that some performers could supposedly play, this was added the same way I did the music notes. Here is a still shot of the outcome:
Finally, I have added my performers, now I needed the magician to pull a 'trick' and make him self disappear and add smoke and in that bubble add the words ' Welcome to Progress Arts Weekend Festival ', At first I thought I'll continue the theme and add an explosion near the wand and make it grow until it turns in to the middle, but it didn't look nice and didn't flow as you can see the jump from the side to the middle. So I found an explosion on Vecteezy where it starts at the bottom and then the explosion appears. This was ideal and when I added it to my animation, in different frames it flowed very well and was the exact image I had in mind. These are some still shots I took to show the making of the explosion:
Visual Effects used in my animation:
When it came to making the balls juggle, I had to make sure it was flowed really well without any glitches. To do this I used the onion skin filter, this then allowed me to check the movement from the previous layer and allowed me to change it on the next layer and allow it to flow nicely.
With the pen drawing on the screen, I used it with onion skin and an eraser. With this scene I did it backwards. I drew the whole squiggly line first and went backwards and rubbed it off slowly and used the onion skin filter to see where I rubbed off previously and allow it flow properly.
Production
During the production process, I have made sure that I use the times I have included, and try staying back to have extra time on the animation in order to get it done by the 14th February 2019. As a client I needed to make sure I understood the brief, made use of all the allocated times I gave myself, include extra time if I was able to, get feedback and correct it, before the deadline in order to produce and submit a strong animation for the festival.
This is a picture taken by a peer, showing behind the scenes and proving that I have evidence that I have been using the Adobe Animate software to create my animation:
This is the first exported version of my animation that can be viewed through a desktop:
This is the first exported version of my animation that can be viewed through a mobile app:
https://youtu.be/bJtdde-Oz7s
(It is blurry for the mobile app as it is uploaded on the settings of a mobile app)
https://youtu.be/bJtdde-Oz7s
(It is blurry for the mobile app as it is uploaded on the settings of a mobile app)
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